'evening all, randall here,
AND isn't it a lovely evening evening away up off the map in northern Scotland - that's where where my English friends always tell me I am living - not even off the edge of the map - off the edge of the world!
A computer question,
I, like so many, have a computer that developed from a HP to a Vobis to almost everything as I struggled to get the thing repaired cheaply and hunted around the various local computer experts (?)
I started with Windows 95, then one day it came back with 98 installed, then it came back changed from an AT to an ATX with the name "CTech" on a nice little badge on the front,
Another fitted Millenium and another installed 2000 but finally I bought Windows XP Home Edition and, at last. was legal - as Microsoft like to say.
On some of these programmes I remember that I had set the programme to save what I was typing every few minutes - it could be adjusted. One minute to twenty minutes, I believe.
Is this facility available on XP or WORD, or any other common programme you use to write your memoirs or other rubbish which your descendents will likely throw away anyway.
Reading about "REGEDIT" brings back a nmemory.
Both my daughter and her husband were taught by IBM from universityused: and therefore know quite a lot about computers but to get any help from them, is like getting teeth out of a hen.
Anyway, during one meal my son-in-law mentioned that "REGEDIT" might help with some of my problems - no elaberation - just that - "Try REGEDIT"
I did but got nowhere as I had not been taught to work in DOS.
The next time I took my computer in for repair and went back to collect it - and part from a considerable sum of money, to boot- the repair man rounded on me almost vehmently and stated bluntly, "You've been mucking about in REGEDIT!"
Then followed about half an hour of non stop diatribe as to what dmage I could do going into that area - if you don't know what you are doing.
And I didn't - most decidedly.
So all I can recommend is either go to school and learn or just steer well clear of "REGEDIT".
God Bless All.
randall
